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Mirrored Video Object in Flash

When using the webcam in your flash applications, it can be handy to flip the video object so it acts like a mirror. Many of the flash webcam demos out there does exactly this, usually by setting the scaleX property…

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Motion & Activity Tracking in Flash

With the introduction of FLARToolkit and other means of tracking user input through a webcam in flash, I recently had a chance to read up on some of the other ways we can interact with flash applications using a webcam.
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Project Organization and Coding Conventions for iPhone Games

Now that we’re knee deep in iPhone game development, we’re working with a number of different outside developers. Since everyone involved is pretty new to Objective-C, XCode and iPhone development, project organization and coding conventions in our projects have been…

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How To Add Box2D To An iPhone XCode Project

Using Box2D is a great way to add physics to a 2D iPhone game. Since Box2D is written in C++ rather than Objective-C, adding it to your XCode project and getting it to build cleanly can be a bit tricky.…

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How to check iPhone texture memory usage with Instruments

When developing iPhone games, one of the biggest performance optimizations you can make is to use OpenGL ES for rendering (instead of CoreGraphics or UIKit). For a 2D game like Arctic Shuffle, this means loading all of the animation into…

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